BOUGHT!! : Buyers - The Interlace (D04)
If you've lived in Singapore long enough, you'd know how tricky it is to find a real estate agent you can trust and be comfortable with. We had gone through our list of bad to average ones while renting over the years. Finally when the decision to buy a place was made, we asked friends and co-workers for recommendations. Amrith's boss recommended Mervin to us since he had helped them with their recent purchase. An appointment was made for us to meet him for an initial consultation and Mervin showed up with his notepad and an interesting personality. We spent a good hour discussing what we had in mind and possibilities. During the chat we also discovered he had helped a number of our colleagues with their purchases too.
Through the course of the next few months of apartment-hunting, we changed our mind a few times on location, budget, even investment vs own-stay but nothing seemed to faze Mervin.
Well, except when we picked locations which he disagreed with and to which his response would usually be
"If you insist, I will find you a unit there but I really think the long term potential may not be there".
We found he has deep insight into the neighbourhoods with good potential in Singapore and didn't hesitate to share his opinions.
Long story short, we finally found our perfect home size-wise, price-wise, and location-wise which is nothing short of a miracle in Singapore. Mervin even helped us with finding banking contacts and dealt with the seller's agent on all matters.
As far as agents in Singapore go, Mervin is one of the best and we would recommend him wholeheartedly.
Amrith & Nags
